Quotes from Jane Fonda

One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.

I never was a hippie! I went to India because so many friends like Mia Farrow and the Beatles were going there to discover truth. And so I went and trekked through India by myself, but instead of discovering truth, I wanted to join the Peace Corps.

I'm vain. My arms are thin, but I'm vain about loose flesh. And so I'm careful that what I wear will show off my best parts, which are my waist and my butt.

I was a chameleon, the woman men wanted me to be.

In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.

I've been accused of being too flexible, too willing to mold myself to men, and that's something I'm constantly working on.

This toxic striving for perfection is a female thing. How many men obsess about being perfect? For men, generally, good enough is good enough.

My identity depended on men for so long. You can be successful and still have the feeling that if you're not with a man you don't exist.

I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.

Beware of men who use words that relate pejoratively to females when describing the 'other side.

I see many more men who are feminist, or at least who have learned about life in the context of feminism.

We cannot elect men to office who are afraid of premature evacuation.

A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.

My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.

Getting fit is a political act - you are taking charge of your life.

Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it.

The secret of losing weight is patience.

I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.

We grow up being told, "Be a good girl." When you're told to be good, you have to get rid of whatever is bad.

Good enough is good enough. We're not supposed to be perfect. We're supposed to be complete.

When you're told to be good, you have to get rid of whatever is bad. I sure identify with that.

You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.

We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did.

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.